Daily Archives: July 30, 2018

Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia walked briskly onto a field for his first NFL training camp in charge with a black cap, black pullover and black shorts while a yellow pencil was nestled over his right ear. INDIANAPOLIS, IN – FEBRUARY 28: Detroit Lions head coach Matt Patricia, answers questions from the media during the NFL Scouting Combine on February ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A man convicted of transporting nearly 600 pounds of marijuana inside a big rig in Arizona has been arrested in Michigan. The Arizona Attorney General’s Office announced Thursday that 63-year-old Alphonso Taylor was taken into custody by federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents in the Detroit metro area. Taylor now is awaiting extradition to Arizona for sentencing. A ...

Vaughn Derderian: “I still like messing with people and schmoozing.” (Facebook photo)
Vaughn Derderian, a schmoozer extraordinaire, recalls the FBI raid in May 1971 at the Anchor Bar his dad Leo ran. Agents rounded up about 150 people around Michigan, including Leo and 16 Detroit cops, as part of a $15-million a year gambling ring run out of ...

The Detroit Lions had a key player on offense come back from an injury and one walk off the field during practice. Wide receiver Marvin Jones returned to practice a day after injuring his left leg. Running back LeGarrette Blount, meanwhile, slowly walked off the field with a trainer during Sunday’s practice. It was not clear why Blount went back ...

BELLEVILLE (AP) — Thousands of people are expected to attend a Jehovah’s Witnesses regional convention series scheduled over weekends through Sept. 2 in Belleville, southwest of Detroit. Sessions for the “Be Courageous” convention program will be held Fridays through Sundays at Belleville Assembly Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Admission is free. Organizers say the program will feature discussions on practical ways ...

(CNN) — Motherhood calls. Cardi B said Thursday she is pulling out of Bruno Mars’ tour this fall to give her more time to recover from giving birth to a daughter earlier this month. She also can’t bear to be away from her daughter at this point, the artist said. “I thought that after giving birth to my daughter that ...

The writer is an associate professor of communications at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
By Tim Kiska
Mister Rogers, Anjelica Huston, and most of the TV industry’s power players sat in a Ritz-Carlton ballroom one night listening to Drew Carey tell a joke so filthy and cringe-worthy that even hardened Hollywood heathens were gasping for oxygen. ...

MICHIGAN — It’s a tough race for any contender, but it looks to be a deadlocked race between two Republican businessmen wanting to take on U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow in the Nov. 6 election, according to a new Free Press poll. If the Aug. 7 primary election were held now, John James of Farmington Hills would get 39% of the ...

Architectural rendering of the proposed development. (Bedrock Detroit illustration)
It’s the largest project for Dan Gilbert in terms of acreage since his downtown buying and building marathon began more than seven years ago.
Gilbert plans a $300-million, mostly residential development at the former Brewster-Douglass housing projects just outside downtown, Kirk Pinho of Crain’s Detroit Business writes. ...